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View Poll Results: Are you willing to give up some constitutional rights to feel safe?
I would rather not have any security checks at airports and take my chances on the flight. 64 68.09%
I would be willing to submit to a search without probable cause so that my fight will be safer. 30 31.91%
Voters: 94. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-21-2013, 11:20 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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I'm not willing to give up or compromise even one tiny bit if freedom in exchange for safety. I want the country to remain as free and open as it was intended to be.

If that means I get blown the hell up, then too bad for me. I'm not gonna live forever anyway. But I wanna die in a free America.

Very honest post!
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Old 04-21-2013, 11:20 AM
 
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Therefore, we can put you on the record as choosing safety over liberty.
Do you even care about an intellectual discussion or you just trying to get a point across?
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Old 04-21-2013, 11:22 AM
 
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Very honest post!
No its not. I guarantee you he would not be opposed to ID checks which, coincidentally, would be a search with out probable cause.
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Old 04-21-2013, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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Yes I'm willing for the sake of safety. To add to that I would like the world to put a whole lot of effort, into the reasons for all the anger in this world. Especially here in the USA. I would love to hear that the USA would spend some real time, into dealing with why so many are angry at this country and its people. Providing all these safety measures is needed, but it does nothing to stop the violence. You have to get to the root of a problem to solve it. Something America has never learned to do with really any of our problems. Quite frankly I'm surprised we have not had more, of these horrible incidents that went on this past week.

So under the circumstances that we live. Yes I would spend more and give up more for the sake of safety, since we obviously have a great need for protection.
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Old 04-21-2013, 11:24 AM
 
Location: Midwest
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Where in the Constitution do we find the right to fly?
LOL! I am guessing nowhere since the Constitution was written before the Wright brothers were probably born.
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Old 04-21-2013, 11:27 AM
 
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The Poll questions and the thread question are two differing matters.
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Old 04-21-2013, 11:28 AM
 
Location: Florida
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For a search to be "unreasonable," there must be lack of probable cause.
According to who?

The Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of airport search simply because such search is reasonable because it is done in an effort to prevent mass murder. As long as the threat of terrorism exists, the searches are authorized.
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Old 04-21-2013, 11:29 AM
 
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The Poll questions and the thread question are two differing matters.
How so? The poll questions are one example of the constitutional rights we give up for safety.
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Old 04-21-2013, 11:29 AM
 
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No. Besides what makes any person think that pat-downs and strip searches will make us any safer?
And the last time a commercial airliner was hijacked in this country was when?
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Old 04-21-2013, 11:29 AM
 
Location: Florida
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For those of you choosing safety......do you really think it can be guaranteed no matter what you are willing to put up with?
It's called a false sense of security and that would come at a very high cost.
Once you gave up wahtever freedoms you are willing to lose to pay that price, you realize you would never be able to say you didn't get what you "paid for" and get your "money" back?
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